RAW Material Company invites you to a vox-ARTIS presentation with Sergio Edelsztein, a curator and founder of the Center for Contemporary Art of Tel Aviv, on Friday, June 28th at 7:30.
Edelsztein will be in conversation with Massamba Mbaye, an art critic and curator, and longtime collaborator of the vox-ARTIS program.
The Center for Contemporary Art (CCA) is a non-profit organization founded in 1998 to promote contemporary and temporal artistic practices in Israel. Operating from a small room in the Tel Aviv cinema, CCA revolutionized the art world in Israel by presenting local and international avant-garde art works. Through this conference, Sergio will present the artistic context of Israel and the highlights of its history.
About Sergio Edelsztein
Sergio Edelsztein was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1956. He studied at the Tel Aviv University (1976-85) and shortly after founded and directed Artifact, a commercial gallery in Tel Aviv (1987-1995). In 1995, Edelsztein founded The Center for Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv and has served as its director and chief curator until 2018. Within the framework of the CCA he curated seven performance art biennials (titled "Blurrr") and five international video art biennials ("VideoZone"). Edelsztein curated the Israeli component of the 24th Sao Paulo Biennial in 1998, and the 2005 and 2013 Israeli Pavilions at the Venice Biennale. Since 1995 he has curated exhibitions and time-based events in Spain, China, Poland, Singapore and several other locations. Major exhibitions curated for the CCA include solo shows of Guy Ben Ner, Roee Rosen, Yael Bartana, Marina Abramovic, Chrsitian Jankowski, Rosa Barba, Ceal Floyer, Gary Hill and many more. Edelsztein has lectured, presented video programs and published texts in Israel, Spain, Brazil, Italy, Austria, Germany, China, the USA, Switzerland, and Argentina, and he writes extensively for catalogues, web-sites and publications throughout the world.